When the Awesome Becomes the Usual
Tales of a Pink Bathroom My bathroom used to be pink. I mean Easter egg, pastel pink, with pink plastic tiles with little gold flecks in them stretching most of the way up the wall. Above the tiles,...
View ArticleOn “There,” and Recognizing When You’ve Reached It
With Christmas shopping fast impending, I’ve gotten back into the habit of going through my favorite survey sites in the hopes of shoring up a little extra spending $$. I’ve been letting that element...
View ArticleThe Day I Lost My Apartment (and Gained a Husband, Among Other Things)
(Forgive me for the excessive length of this one, but I was feeling particularly philosophical/nostalgic.) Six years ago this past Saturday (Friday the 13th (ironically), 2006) was the infamous Buffalo...
View ArticleIn a Mirror, Brightly
When I was little, I’d sometimes look at my bedroom through the mirror on my closet door. It was a small room, barely a closet, so there wasn’t much I could do to mix things up if I got bored with the...
View ArticleYou’ve Already “Made It.” Did You Know?
Last week, I had what Anne of my Cordelian namesake would call “an epoch in my life”: I got the buttons for my Invisaligns taken off. I am now finished with my alignments, after 3 years of wearing...
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